NEWS BRIEFS

HomeClub, Inc. will open 103,904 sq. ft. stores with outside nurseries in Bellingham, Lacey and Silverdale, Wa., this spring... Meek's Building Center is opening a new location with a 6 acre lumber yard, 16,000 sq. ft. showroom, 15,000 sq. ft. drive-through warehouse and a drive-up window in Redding, Ca., using a former Grossman's Lumber & Building Materials store they remodeled...

California Hardware had a grand opening and ribbon cutting for a Century Store of Tbmorcow in Las Vegas, Nv....Murry Hilty, owner of Analv True Value Hardware, Sebastopoll'94.';',will open Analy True Value Hame Center this month in a former D:iamond htmber on Depot St....

Home Depot set Feb. 1993 as the opening for its first store in Seattle, Wa.; closed a Phoenix, Az., unit until spring for remodeling,..Eagle Hardware plans to open its sixth store in Rainier Val'ley (Seattle), Wa. ...ThompsonDiggs Co., Sacramento, Ca., closed only its hardlines distribution business, not the entire company as reported earlier...

D & B Building Materials, San Jose, Ca., is conducting a goingout-of-business sale this month in preparation for closing at the end of the month...

The Lane Co., is a new domestic and overseas marketing and sales consultant firm established in Portland, Or., by Terry Lane, forlnerly with North Pacific Lumber Co....Columbia Forest Products Inc., Pofiland, Or., acquired a hard:wood veneer plant in New Freedom, Pa., from Weyerhaeuser Co....

Caffall Bros. Forest Products Inc., Wilsonville, 0r., will handle sales for Sierra Cedar Products, Marysville. Ca., when its incense cedar fencing mill is completed, probably in early Jan....

Plateau Forest Products, Albuquerque, N.M., is moving to Bend, Or., in Jan....Silvan Inc. has moved from Santa Cruz, Ca., to larger facilities in Watsonville, Ca., and expanded into redwood and teak ouidoor furniture lines,...

Cal State Forest Productgha*,, moved from Anaheim, Ca,, to ne*; larger offices, warehouse a!-diy at 630 Freedom Ave. in Orang.e,, Ca. ...Noble Lumber Co. k a new Orange, Ca., wholesaler specializing in redwood and cedar: Phil Heim, founder.;.

Disdero Lumber Co., Portland, Or., expects to acquire the Seattle, Wa, West Waterway Lumber Co.'s name and Hardwoods Division this month to operate as a division under the management of Randy Whiteman...

Mission Hardwood Co., Scottsdale, Az., moved to newly designed offices, showroom and warehouse.. .Trus-Joist Mac Mil lan set up offices in Plymoun, Mnrt,,,'.,.'.'

Arizona Pacific Wood Presi|fu-, ing, Inc., Vacaville, Ca., filed chapter 1l bankruptcy as did sister company Pacific Woad Preserving of Bakersfield, (Ca-)...Judith Gap Forest Products, Judith Gap, Mt., has gone out of business...

Forest Grove Lumbet McMinnville, Or., has been formed by Jack Burnard, Al Martindale and private investors who purchased the equipment and inveniory of Taylor lnmber's reman div., Forest Grove, Or....

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', r,,,,:, .,, .,:,.f;d.u fs ia n a - P a c ific clo sed its Samoa, Ca., pulp mill for the first time in memory, idling 183 employees, until at least the first part of the year; the L-P redwood sawmill at Samoa was not affected...

Snavely Forest Products will close its 6ntario, Ca.. operation at the end of the year...Timberline Sales, Orange, Ca., has ceased op eration...

,,',:fhe 'U.S. Departrnent of Commerce gave $500,000 to the American Building Products Export/Import Council to organize the Consortium of American Housing Industries in Eastern Europe to help U.S. manufacturers of housing and building products find export oppoftunities in that region; offices will be opsned-in Warsaw and Budapest to liuild showhouses, organize trade shows and missions...

The Stanley Works is combining opqStion of its Home Automntion, Electronics and Door Sysrens divi,iions in the U.S. and Canada into a rbingle business, Stanley Door Sys':t,erns Div ision... Boise Cascade, Boise, Id., received a certificate of appreciation from the EPA for its commitment to reducing emissions..

New housing starts rose 7.4Vo in October (latest figs.), to the highest level since Nov. 1990, a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,096,000...multi starts leaped 26.17o; single family, 3.9Va; building permits,5.47o.